I am trying to come up with exam questions that can test how well someone has absorbed key concepts from The Social Code. The exam will be in the form of a conversation with the AI professor. The feedback that the user will receive will be qualitative. It will be based on how correctly they employ the concepts and avoid basic misunderstanding.
I could be wrong, but I think that the goals for this type of seminar are less measurable than those for, say, a course in algebra or anatomy. I am trying to offer students models of the world, and those models are themselves imperfect.
When we teach economics, we often say that our goal is for students to be able to “think like an economist.” We might test for that by giving out problems involving supply and demand diagrams, but students can pass those and still not apply economic thinking to real-world policy questions.
One way to approach coming up with the exam for the seminar is to ask: what do I hope that a student who has sat through the seminar does not believe?
The top misconceptions I hope to have steered someone away from are: